SGER: Student Notetaking in the Digital Age

虽然传统的笔记方法是一种植根于过去的做法，但在数字技术无处不在的时代，一种新的基于网络的笔记模式正在迅速出现。学生不能再成功地在图书馆进行研究，与小组成员一起工作，在实验室进行实验，或者只带着纸质笔记本和笔来上课。相反，他们现在被期望在不同的地点和不同的时间记录和吸收来自各种不同数字来源的信息，以完成广泛的任务。为了有效地做到这一点，学生需要工具和接入点，使他们能够在多个计算机平台上有效地合并来自多个来源的笔记。为了为这类工具的开发奠定基础，PI将在这个项目中研究学生的笔记实践是如何演变的，它们与传统的纸质笔记有何不同，高等教育对学生的新期望是什么，以及学生的任务和要求如何决定对新软件工具的需求。为此，她将采访来自不同学科的50名本科生和研究生，并审查他们目前的笔记习惯，特别关注他们目前如何以及为什么用电子方式做学术笔记，在哪里做笔记，在哪里存储笔记，笔记的组成部分是什么，笔记的来源是什么，他们目前在哪些任务上遇到困难，以及他们认为现有工具很好地支持了哪些任务。她还将采访多达20名教师和教授，以了解他们如何在课程中利用数字资源，以及他们对学生在课堂上访问和整合这些资源的期望。广泛的影响：这项研究是评估是否需要软件工具来帮助学生完成数字笔记任务的必要的第一步。PI希望这些工具的开发通过帮助各行各业的人管理他们的日常任务，对整个社会证明是无价的。

While the traditional method of note-taking is a practice rooted in the past, in the age of ubiquitous digital technologies a new Web-based note-taking paradigm is rapidly emerging. Students can no longer successfully conduct research in the library, work with group members, run experiments in the lab, or come to class equipped solely with a paper notebook and pen. Rather, they are now expected to record and assimilate, in different locations and at different times, information that comes from a variety of disparate digital sources in order to accomplish a wide range of tasks. To effectively do this, students need tools and access points that allow them to combine notes effectively from many sources and on multiple computer platforms. To lay the groundwork for the development of such tools, the PI will in this project examine how students' note-taking practices have evolved, how they differ from traditional paper-based note-taking, what the new expectations are for students in higher education, and how students' tasks and requirements dictate the need for new software tools. To these ends, she will interview up to 50 undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of disciplines and review their current note-taking habits, paying particular attention to questions of how and why they currently take academic notes electronically, where they take notes, where they store their notes, what the components of their notes are, what the source of their notes are, which tasks they currently have difficulty with and which they feel are well supported by existing tools. She will also interview up to 20 instructors and professors to learn how they utilize digital resources in their courses, and what they expect of students taking their classes in terms of accessing and integrating these sources.Broader Impacts: This research is a necessary first step in assessing the need for software tools to assist students with their digital note-taking tasks. The PI expects the development of such tools to prove invaluable to society as a whole, by helping people in all walks of life manage their daily tasks.